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Ezra 4:6

And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Assuerus; otherwise called Cambyses, the son and successor of Cyrus. He is also, in the following verse, named Artaxerxes, by a name common to almost all the kings of Persia, (Calmet) after Memnon. (Diodorus xv.) Septuagint, "Arthasastha. "Arta signifies "great "and xerxes, "warriour. "(Herodotus vi. 98.) After Assuerus, some copies add, "he is Artaxerxes "and Assuerus is so called in the Septuagint of Sixtus, 3 Esdras ii. 16. (Menochius)

Richard Challoner

AD 1781
Assuerus: Otherwise called Cambyses the son and successor of Cyrus. He is also in the following verse named Artaxerxes, a name common to almost all the kings of Persia.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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